Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted April 15 Diamond Member Share Posted April 15 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up / Photos of iGBA that appeared on the App Store before the app was taken down. (credit: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ) [/url] Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up earlier this month. As of Monday morning, though, iGBA has been pulled from the App Store following controversy over the unauthorized reuse of source code from a different emulator project. Shortly after iGBA's launch, some people on social media This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that the project appeared to be based on the code for GBA4iOS, a nearly decade-old emulator that developer Riley Testut and a partner developed as high-schoolers (and distributed via This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ). Testut This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to call iGBA a "knock-off" of GBA4iOS. "I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking)," he wrote. GBA4iOS is This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up released under the GNU GPLv2 license, with licensing terms that let anyone "use, modify, and distribute my original code for this project without ***** of legal consequences." But those expansive licensing terms only apply "unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required." This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/16162-steampressapple-removes-the-first-ios-game-boy-emulator-released-under-new-app-store-rules/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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